YinOva acupuncturist Mary Sabo is a regular meditator and here she explains how to begin a meditation practice. Practicing meditation is a very simple way to help you manage your life and health. Despite what you read or hear, there is really no right or wrong way to meditate. In fact, one of simplest meditations [...]
YinOva Pilates Instructor Sarah Lehman blogs today about using exercise to affect mood. Have you ever heard of a “runner’s high?” The “I’m on top of the world” feeling you get after exercise is actually caused by chemicals your body releases after physical exertion. These endorphins, believe it or not, have similar properties to morphine. [...]
It is early November and the exhilarating colors of autumn are falling away with the leaves. For many of my patients, the desire to get outside and “take it all in” is also starting to give way to dreams of hibernation. By nature, we all slow down during the winter months. According to Chinese Medicine [...]
How to keep low back pain from getting in the way of your summer fun.
Many women dread the last week of every cycle because of how irritable and miserable they feel. Chinese medicine has been treating premenstrual symptoms for thousands of years and here at the YinOva Center we have drawn on this traditional wisdom to help modern New Yorkers address their PMS simply and effectively. Many of our patients are surprised and thrilled to find out that PMS can be solved and that they don’t have to put up with feeling moody and uncomfortable every month.
The credit crunch, the bail-out, the war, the presidential election…it seems like a good week to talk about stress and anxiety!
Be still, and know that I am God” (Psalm 46:10) “We practice meditation in order to see ourselves as we truly are and life as it truly is.” ( Genpo Roshi) “Meditation brings wisdom: lack of meditation leaves ignorance. (Buddha) There is a reason that all religious traditions involve some kind of meditation, prayer or [...]
I have an admission to make… At the YinOva Center we are not paragons of virtue. Patients visiting us for the first time sometimes imagine that we will be scarily macrobiotic women who will pour scorn on their efforts to take care of themselves. Nothing could be farther from the truth. We are all working-women [...]
